Analysis of Clinical Governance Framework at SUNSET Hospital

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the clinical governance framework at SUNSET Hospital. It begins by defining clinical governance (CG) and contrasting it with National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS). The report then examines the practical application of CG within the hospital, detailing its key elements and how staff members recognize and reflect it in their practices. The analysis includes examples of how SUNSET Hospital implements CG, such as through risk management and staff development programs. The report also explores CG pillars and principles, organizational frameworks, and the importance of patient feedback. The conclusion summarizes the role of CG in improving healthcare service quality and provides insights into the strategic approach used to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the hospital's framework. The report references various academic sources to support its findings.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERNECES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
A clinical governance is defined as framework through which SUNSET HOSPITAL
organizations that are accountable for continuously improving the better quality of services. This
will help for providing safe-guards as high standards of care in which creating a healthy
environment or culture. This documentation will describe about the difference between CG and
National safety, quality health service standards (NSQHS). Then, analyse CG framework in
SUNSET HOSPITAL workplace and appraise by organization. It will describe that how
SUNSET HOSPITAL staff members recognise clinical governance framework and reflecting in
their practices.
MAIN BODY
Overview
Clinical Governance has been evolved since it’s introduced in 1998, means to improve
quality of healthcare service and delivered by National Health Service. The classical definition of
CG (Clinical Governance) is consider as framework which SUNSET HOSPITAL enterprises are
accountable for continuously improving quality of their health service and provide safe guarding
high standards (Ahern, Feiler & Sdrinis, 2020). Clinical effectiveness questions that how clinical
intervention which is mainly supports for measuring, along with its cost effectiveness. National
Institute for health and clinical excellence are providing better guidelines that have been
developed to improve clinical effectiveness.
Difference between CG and NSQHS Standards
The primary aim of NSQHS (National safety and quality health service standards) that
support for protecting public from harm and improve provision of health services. This type of
standards was approved by Ministers in 2017, while allowing SUNSET HOSPITAL enterprise
flexibility to decide how they can achieve their desirable result or outcome in appropriate
manner. On the other hand, Clinical Governance is consider as framework that help for SUNSET
HOSPITAL organization to provide as safeguarding with high quality of services (Veenstra &
et.al., 2017). The difference between CG and NSQHS whereas CG help for establishing an
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effective working environment or culture of SUNSET HOSPITAL enterprise but NSQHS
improve current health service standards.
What does CG Look like in workplace with examples?
Basically, Clinical Governance is expected to consider as key elements of ongoing
workplace development. This type CG framework will support for changing the culture or
environment of SUNSET HOSPITAL enterprises in order to build an effective structure, layout
that are fit for purpose (Gauld & Horsburgh, 2020). In the workplace, CG should consider
different elements such as organizational purpose, core objectives, intended outcomes of care,
overall strategic directions.
In this way, it can be identified that Clinical Governance framework look like as strategic
approach that help for providing the right direction of SUNSET HOSPITAL enterprise. By using
different elements. It is to be effective way to start at department level and build from base. For
Example- Sometimes, it become useful for clinical professionals to inspire or motivate towards
relationship between culture, power and leadership determines the success of SUNSET
HOSPITAL at workplace.
Discuss about how SUNSET HOSPITAL do to help staff members recognise CG in the
workplace.
SUNSET HOSPITAL enterprise should consider Clinical Governance framework for
different process of organization. it holds boards, leaders accountable for continuously
improving its current operations, clinical staff performance, processes and financial performance.
In SUNSET HOSPITAL, healthcare board of directors and executive are recognizing clinical
framework when they will change the policies and procedures (Krishnan & Kamar, 2020). It
include the managing clinical practices which help for establishing the goals and objectives to
strive for and they need to manage or control risk as well (Spigelman & Rendalls, 2015). In this
way, SUNSET HOSPITAL enterprise and their staff members can identify right use of CG
framework within SUNSET HOSPITAL and develop a proper rules, regulation and ethics fall
under corporate governance (Van Zwanenberg & Harrison, 2018). It help for establishing a
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strong interconnection between clinical governance and corporate because revenue cycles and
other reimbursement policies.
A leader of SUNSET HOSPITAL that have identified certain things that lead to general
issue or problem with healthcare governance. While staff members recognize the importance of
clinical and corporate governance.
Organizational CG Framework include CG pillars and principles.
In SUNSET HOSPITAL enterprise, Clinical governance framework that help for
organization provide safe and high quality of care. It relates with one aspect of enterprise and
delivery of better care. Unfortunately, each and every staff members plays important role in the
implementation of Clinical Governance (CG) framework.
There are different types of CG pillars and principles applicable in the SUNSET
HOSPITAL (Mosadeghrad, Arab & Shahidi Sadeghi, 2019). It involves education, training,
clinical effectiveness, risk management, clinical audit, openness, research and development.
These are considered as important aspect of clinical governance within organization (American
Psychological Association, 2020).
For Example- SUNSET HOSPITAL enterprise can use risk management process so that
they can involve as robust system to monitor or track risks of patient, identifying particular
disease through system. This will help for professionals to examine current health condition or
situation of patient. At certain point, it has reduced the chances of mistakes and past experience.
Mind Map of Clinical Governance Framework
In SUNSET HOSPITAL, Professionals can consistently provide the safe high quality of
health care facilities and services. Usually, each and every specialist experience that can easily
fulfill need and requirement of patient. Additionally, they are working with humility, respect,
kindness and compassion in high performing teams.
Quality improvement measurement is another important aspect of SUNSENT
HOSPITAL that can perform different operations such as risk management, incident
management, open disclosure, clinical audit and other type of remodeling values.
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In SUNSET HOSPITAL, it can be implementing program for staff development so that
provide greater opportunities through training session (Gottwald & Lansdown, 2014). In order to
regular review staff practice ensure that staff member provide best quality of facilities and
services to consumer.
On the other hand, Customer feedback is another important aspect of Clinical governance
that can be conducting patient survey’s, evaluate and identifying past experience of patient. In
case if any complaint identified and resolved immediately.
Does team understand CG and reflected in their practices, why or why not
Yes, it is absolutely right thing that Clinical governance concept understand by staff
members within SUNSET HOSPITAL and their workplace. Afterwards, it reflecting the level of
knowledge and application of CG practices that are establish correlation between clinical unit’s
efficiency indicators (Oboirien, Goudge & Eyles, 2019). In order to manage or control bed
occupancy rate, extra region based mobility and bed turnover intervals. These are considered as
important way to analyse the significance of CG framework within SUNSET HOSPITAL in
Australia.
In additional, Clinical Governance practices that includes patient safety, quality
improvement and risk management. it refer to the set of specific relationship between the
responsibilities, relationships established by healthcare service at SUNSET Hospital between
executives, workforce and other stakeholders.
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CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it has concluded that clinical governance plays an important
framework which always supports for SUNSET HOSPITAL organizations in context of quality
of healthcare service improvement. Sometimes, it has been represented as brief idea of strategic
approach to examine the strength or weakness of SUNSET HOSPITAL organizations. In this
documentation, it has summarised about the difference between CG and National safety, quality
health service standards (NSQHS). Analysing the concept of CG framework in SUNSET
HOSPITAL workplace. Moreover, it can be identified that Clinical governance as framework
that can utilise to recognise the practices in context of health service improvement.
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